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- 30 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?
members ” Allan put it this way: “ organizations are comprised of people. If the leadership within the organizations are ‘arrogant’ it would lead to ‘organizational arrogance,’” depending, as David Wittenberg pointed out, “ whether the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
early months of the pandemic compared to other hosts in New York City. The drop in reviews for Asian hosts began in the spring of 2020 and remained low through November 2020. Scapegoating during the pandemic Reports of racially motivated... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
us to hire consultants who have little interest in self-aggrandizement," he wrote last year in the Harvard Business Review. "We must hire people who are team players, who get more pleasure from the group's success than their own... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
urgent systemic changes needed to address climate change. By doing what’s right for people and the planet, pep+ will help position our company as a consistent top market performer by generating stronger, more loyal connections with our... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
According to Danaher, the DBS engine “drives the company through a never-ending cycle of change and improvement: exceptional people develop outstanding plans and execute them using world-class tools to construct sustainable processes,... View Details
- 24 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?
so for me, that’s the main motivation for the paper, as well as trying to explore whether people are more or less productive given this new environment.” The results confirmed high levels of COVID-related... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 04 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Tech Club
club can help provide them the skills, knowledge, and connections to get that dream job. In addition we aim to provide members with the motivation and means with which to give back to the club — in terms of forming close friendships with... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
problem, he warned. In Great Britain, the accounting system is typically a principles-based system. "Here, we've got a rules-based system where we get more and more rules in a larger and larger code with smarter and smarter people... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
from within the company, so that no radical changes are imposed by new leaders from the outside trying to make a good impression. The CEO's position changes continually: four people regularly rotate through the job every year. The company... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
American?” I thought to myself. “Can’t relate." Yes, I was Asian. But I was an Asian in America, not an Asian American. The distinction, for me, was crucial. But as the months went by, I discovered that other people didn’t care about this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
What is the HBS FIELD Program?
for FIELD 2 & 3. What is FIELD 2? In FIELD 2, first year students travel to an emerging market to work on a short term consulting project for ten days in January. Students rank the 13 to 14 locations, and then are put into groups of six with View Details
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
transition back to “normal” (whatever that means). Although we are still living in COVID-19’s grip, companies are starting to devise plans to bring their workforces back to the office in the coming weeks and months. In recent conversations with CEOs and other company... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
them, which ultimately meant that I was representing people like my mother who is a CalPERS beneficiary, required challenging those firms who managed their money to do the right thing on behalf of their limited partners, not themselves.... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
team-based, seniority-based, and flatter compensation. We propose that compensation is strategic not only in motivating and attracting the worker being compensated, but also in its impact on peer workers and the firm's complementary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
editorial section of the HBP website features motivational lessons and practical insights on a range of topics. Revenue from Corporate Learning declined 7 percent from the prior year. As a result of COVID-19, many corporate clients... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
motivating culture at any particular point in time, and that's kind of an “aha” moment for the students to see. Kenny: Are they a little tired the day after the Super Bowl, the students? Santana: They're very tired the day after the Super... View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
("we're probably one degree of separation away from anybody who's anybody on the Internet") — are what it takes to get a business going: "It's not just dumb money." Connections are key, agreed Cambridge Incubator's Rowe. "If you are working... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
"Ted Levitt changed my life," wrote Barry Koh (HBS PMD 30, 1975). "In our very first class he opened my eyes to how people are motivated to make decisions. Before, I thought as an engineer—the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
corridor of Southwest Baltimore. Factories and warehouses supplied the city with everything from furniture to gelato, and people flocked to the strip’s shops, theaters, and saloons. Just to the south, a series of elegant row houses earned... View Details
- 11 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies
product and the competitive landscape. For example, if you have an OS competitor like Apache or the Free Software Foundation, you may not want to be so open. This is an interesting point to make, because usually people think if you face... View Details